Antirattling device



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. MCCLINTOCK, OFv WICHITA., KANSAS, ASSIGNOR F ONE-THIRD T0 B. C. WELLMAN AND ONE-THIRD T0 W. H. MOCOIN, BOTH 0F WICHITA, KANSAS.

ANTIRATTLING DEVICE.

Application led April 14, 1922. ySerial No. 552,687.

To u/Z ywhom t may concern Be it known that I JAMES L. MOCLIN- Tecn, a citizen of the zUnited States, residing at. Wichita, Kansas, have invented oer- .1 tuin new and useful Improvements in an Antirattling Device, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention comprises an anti-rattling device. It is a continuation of and improvement on the structure set forth in my copending application Serial No. 248,325. It is contemplated, in addition to the objects and advantages therein enumerated, to provide a device having a base or support made of a piece of material which may be used on either side, or, turned upside down as'occasion may demand, the associated parts bein interchangeable and reversible to accor with the location and position of the plate.

Another object is to reduce the number of workin parts and simplify their assemblage. 4 urther advantages will be apparent from the description which follows.

A drawing illustrating an embodiment of the invention accompames the specification, the following views being shown:

Fig. 1, is a fragmentary view in side elevation certain parts being removed and showing the osition of the device when in operative posltion;

Fig. 2, is a view in vertical section through a window to which the device has been attached;

Fig. 3, is a view in perspective of the device itself. l

In these drawings 1 designates a plate, base, or body portion which constitutes a support for the other working parts of the device when assembled. It is provided with openings 2 for the reception of means for securing it in place in any desired location, such means belng here shown as screws, 3.

Associated with this plate there is a spring pressed and resliently mounted roller 4. It

lis mounted so as to normally extend outwardly beyond the edge ci the plate as shown in Fig. 3, but when in use is forced back into the position shown in Fig. 1. This roller is carried on a bent portion 5 disposed on an offset portion 6 of a resilient arm 7. The oiset ortion of the' arm acts as a housing or con ning means for the roller and the arm 7, of which it is a continuation is normally in sliding engagement with a face of the pla-te when secured thereto. For this purpose the arm 7 is provided with a looped portion 8 adapted to bear upon and encircle one of the screws 3,- acting a's a bearing and means for holding 'the arm and roller in po- Sition on the plate.

Means are provided for pressing the roller outwardly with a. resilient tension, and for varying the degree of this force as occasion may require. As here shown, the looped portion 8 of the arm 7, is provlded with anl extension constituting another arm 9, in spaced relation to arm 7 and at an angle thereto. This arm has, at its free end, a bent or angulated portion 10 adapted to be disposed in any one of a series of holes 11 disposed in the plate 1 and adapted to increase the tension on arm 7, depending upon which one of the holes the bent portion 10 occupies. The arms being made of resilient materlal, the tension may be readily adjusted to accommodate a large variety of In Fig. 2, the device is shown applied to a window 12, by cutting out a portion of the frame so as to allow the roller to extend out beyond the plane of one surface. The plate 1 is attached to the window by screws 3, one of which passes through the looped portion 8 of the, arms. The tendency of the roller to extend outwardly under pressure of the arms is resisted by a portion 13 of the window frame which forms the slideway forthe window and this exerts a pressure agalnst the window itself which keeps it .tightly in engagement with another`- portion 14 of the slideway. This not only prevents rattling, but insures air and dust tight engagement between the parts, and dispenses with the use of window weights. The tension is sufficient to allow the window to be moved readily, but also to hold it in any desired position. The plate being absolutely flat and vlimit. myself to the precise form of this disclosure, as many changes in the general construction and arran ement of the parts, are contemplated as Wit in the scope of the invention as set forth in the claims.

What li claim is:

' l. An anti-rattling device comprising a base provided with an opening through which a fastening means is adapted to pass to secure the base in position; a spring member having a portion adapted to cooperate with the fastening means, to connect the sprino with the base; a frame engaging arm extending from the spring member; and a tension arm connected with the spring member, the base being provided With a` plurality of openings into W ich a portion of the tension arm 1s adapted to take, to vary pressure of the frame engaging arm on the frame.

2. An anti-rattling device comprising a base provided with an opening through which a fastening means is adapted to pass to secure the base in position; a spring member having a portion adapted to cooperate with the fastening means, to connect the y spring with the base; a frame engaging arm extending from the spring member; a tension arm connected with the spring member, the base being provided With a plurality of openings into which a portion of the tension arm is adapted to take, to vary pressure of the frame engaging arm on the frame; and a roller on the frame engaging arm.

3. An anti -rattling device including a base provided with an opening for the reception of means for securing lit in place; a spring member having a portion formed to cooperate with the securing means to hold the springl in place; an arm on the spring member adapted-to be secured to the base to vary the tension of thecspring member, said base being provided with openingsin spacedrelation; and the arm having a portion adapted to be yplaced in certain of the openin s.

An anti-rattling device comprising a base provided with .an opening through Which a fastening means is adapted to pass to secure the base in position; a spring member having aportion adapted to cooperate With the fastening means, to connect the spring with the base; a frame engaging arm extending from the spring member; and a tension arm connected with the spring Medea? member, the base being provided With a plurality of openings into Which a portion of the tension arm is adapted to take, to vary pressure of the frame engaging arm' on the frame, said openings into which a portion of the tension arm is adapted to take, be ing placed in definite relation to the opening through which the fastening means is adapted to pass, whereby the base may be turned over and the parts assembled in similloar arrangement on the opposite side of the ase.

5. An anti-rattling device comprising a base provided with openings at opposite ends thereof for the reception of a fasten-` ing means for securing the base in place; a spring member having a portion adapted 1o cooperate with a portion of the fastening means, to connect the spring with the base; a frame-engaging arm extending from the spring member, and a tension arm extending from the spring member; said base being provided wlth an opening disposed between the openings for the reception of the base attaching means, and into which a portion of the tension arm is adapted to take, Whereby the base may be reversed and inverted, and the parts assembled in similar arrangement on either side of the base.

GfAn anti-rattling device comprising a base provided with openings at oppositey ends thereof for the reception of a fastening means for securing thel base in place; a spring member having a portion adapted to cooperate Witha portion of the Jfastening means, to connect the spring with the base; a frame-engaging arm extending from the lspring member; and a tension arm extend k,lng from the sprlng member; sald base being provided With a plurality of openings disposed in predetermined relation to the openings for the reception of the base attaching means, and into which a portion of "theftension arm is adapted to take to vaiv pressure of the frame engaging arm on the frame, whereby the base may be reversed andlinverted, and the parts assembled in similar arrangement on either side oi the base. v

lin testimony whereof li hereto affix my signature.

JAMES L. MCCLINTCK. 

